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The Seven Sisters is the story that began it all. An epic tale of love and loss, it tells the stories of the D’Aplièse sisters, all adopted as babies by the enigmatic billionaire they affectionately call Pa Salt. Read by Tuppence Middleton (Thirty Days in Paris, The Doll Factory). This is...

The brand-new prequel to the Cornish Girls series from bestselling historical saga author and Romantic Saga of the year nominee Betty Walker Meet the Cornish Girls before the war! War looms on the horizon. Their lives are about to change forever… Dagenham, 1939. Sheila Hopkins has always put...

'A beautiful, hypnotic, emotional novel. I couldn’t stop turning the pages' CECELIA AHERN *** Can they find each other in every lifetime after…? Claudia is searching for her past. Suffocating in the glamour of Hollywood, A-list star Claudia Baxter is desperate for an escape. But when she...

“Scott Spencer writes about love’s tenacity with passionate intensity….From his remarkable opening sentence he had me in thrall.” —Newsweek First published three decades ago, and hailed as “one of the best books of the year” by the New York Times, here is the classic novel that...

Set during WW2 in the Yorkshire valley of Dentdale, Secrets in the Dales is a heartfelt story of family, romance and one woman's determination in hard times. In the sleepy Yorkshire Dales, the peaceful existence of Sally’s family is shattered by the outbreak of the Second World War. With her...

This heart-wrenching novel about family and war unearths generations of secrets and sacrifices—perfect for fans of The Paris Orphan and The Lost Girls of Paris. 2017, London: When Aurelia Leclaire inherits an opulent Paris apartment, she is shocked to discover her grandmother’s hidden...

Family and friendship mean everything under the darkening skies of wartime Britain, by Sunday Times bestselling author Margaret Dickinson. It is the 1930s and the Maitland family have spent the years following the Great War struggling to come to terms with its catastrophic aftermath, and their...

Will Christmas bring them happiness or heartache? Don't miss the heartwarming new novel from the author of Secrets for the Three Sisters and The Three Sisters of Victory Walk. ___________________________________ It’s 1942 on Victory Walk in East London, and the Harrison sisters are wishing for...

The final installment in The Red Cross Orphans series from the Globe & Mail bestselling author! When the war is over, what will remain? With six hard years of war behind her, former nurse Kitty McCarthy should be facing a bright future. But her husband Michael shatters her peace in an instant...

Forbidden friendship, political conspiracy and incendiary passion draw Australian woman Annie Brand deep into the glamour and turmoil of 1920s Shanghai. Leaving behind the loneliness and trauma of her past in country Australia, Annie Brand arrives to the political upheaval and glittering...

Set against the backdrop of gathering war, A Song for Summer is an unforgettable love story from master storyteller Eva Ibbotson and read by actress Emilia Fox. When Ellen Carr abandons grey, dreary London to become housekeeper at an experimental school in Austria, she soon knows she's found her...

A distant land. A dangerous husband. A forbidden love. The year is 1912. Nineteen-year-old Maisie Porter watches from the deck of the SS Oceanic as England fades from view. Her destination is Buccaneer Bay in Australia’s far north-west. Her fate: marriage to distant cousin Maitland Sinclair, a...

Discover the brand-new heartwarming and dramatic novel in the Steel Girls series now! 'Emotional and authentic' KATE THOMPSON 'Saga fans are in for a treat!' VICKI BEEBY 'Hopeful, joyous and uplifting' MILLY JOHNSON 'Wartime drama at its best, and the steel girls are my absolute favourite'...

London, 2004. Frankie didn't always have it easy. Growing up motherless, she was raised by her grandmother, who loved her - and betrayed her. For years, the rift between them seemed irreparable. But when their paths suddenly cross again, Frankie is shocked to realise that her grandmother is slowly losing control of her memory. There is a darkness in her past that won't stay buried - secrets going back to wartime that may have a devastating effect on Frankie's own life.

'Beautiful…Tessa Harris has made me appreciate historical novels in a way that I haven't in quite some time' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Oh my goodness…this book was so unputdownable…will never be forgotten' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'A suspenseful novel of bravery and determination…highly recommended'...

‘What a page turner!' Daisy Wood, author of The Forgotten Bookshop in Paris ' A delicious Art Deco novel with a delightfully acerbic heroine.' Marius Gabriel, author of The German Daughter 'Original and immersive' Eva Glyn, author of An Island of Secrets In a bookshop nestled in the sprawling...

An unlikely friendship between two young women from opposite ends of Fitzroy sparks lifechanging transformations they could never have anticipated. Melbourne, 1945. Born into a well-to-do family, Maggie Johnson wants freedom from her parents' strict conservative beliefs and their unbending...

Read the brand-new heart-wrenching historical novel from Tessa Harris, The Florence Sisters, now! ‘If you're a fan of WWII historical fiction [and] a courageous woman not willing to settle … I would highly recommend The Tuscan Daughter' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Tuscany, 1942: having moved from...

Phoebe is a VAD at a Base Hospital in Étaples, France, treating men who’ve served at the Front. Their courage and resilience inspires her, and though she’s meant to keep her distance, Captain Archie Bailey soon captivates her heart. Her younger sister Celia is a nurse at a POW camp on the island of Jersey. These men fight for the forces that bombed her brother and parents, but long hours spent healing them shows her they aren’t the monsters she expected.

Three sisters, one secret and a question that stretches across generations...a compulsively readable historical mystery from a bestselling Australian author How much of who we are is destiny and how much is chance? In 1934, the three Miss Allens - Ruby, Adeline and Clara - arrive in the seaside...